Lena Dunham is an American filmmaker and actress. She wrote and directed the independent film Tiny Furniture (2010), and is the creator and star of the HBO series Girls. In 2013, Dunham was named one of Time's most influential people in the world.On October 8, 2012, Dunham signed a $3.5 million deal with Random House to publish her first book, an essay collection called Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned.
Older sister of Grace Dunham.
Director and star of "Tight Shots" , a comedic web series on Nerve.com.
Writer, director, producer, and costar of "Delusional Downtown Divas" , a web show satirizing the New York art world.
Friend of Jemima Kirke and Taylor Swift.
Met friend Audrey Gelman in Oberlin College.
One of Time Magazines 100 Most Influential People in the World.
(February 2013) New York, NY, USA: Announces new deal to create and write a second series for HBO, with her "Girls" producer, Jennifer Konner , based on a memoir by Betty Halbreich , a NYC department-store personal shopper for the rich and famous.
Lena graduated from Oberlin College with her degree in Creative Writing.
(October 2008) Lives and works in New York City.
Lenas father has English, as well as remote Scottish, Welsh, and German, ancestry; he is a Mayflower descendant. Lenas mother is from an Ashkenazi Jewish family.
Worked at a video store, Mr. Video III, in Brooklyn Heights in 2001.
Best friends with Amy Schumer and Sheryl Sandberg , COO of social media giant Facebook.
In a relationship with musician Jack Antonoff - formerly of bands Bleachers and Steel Train and, to date , lead guitarist with indie rock band Fun.. The couple met on a blind date in 2012.
In 2012 Dunham signed a $3.5 million deal with Random House for her first autobiographical book titled "Not That Kind of Girl - A Young Woman Tells You What Shes Learned". The book went on the make the #2 slot on the New York Times Bestseller list.
She said she was proud of all of the women she knew, including her mother, who had an abortion. Then she stated that she wished she was in that society of women.
(May 3, 2017) Had experienced complications from her endometriosis and needed to seek medical care. Dunham is now at home and taking some much needed time to rest and shes doing well. The HBO star has been very public about her long battle with the disorder. In early April, Dunham revealed that she underwent her fifth surgery in the last year to move her ovaries away from her rectal wall on Saturday, and end her chronic pain. She said that she and her doctors had tried every non-surgical option possible, from yoga to a holistic diet (which Dunham says is the cause of the "thin shaming" she was experiencing), but the pain was too overwhelming, and would not go away.
Born on the same day as Robert Pattinson.
I always felt like it was really special to have parents who were,artists and to live the kind of life that we lived. . . I thought there,was a kind of romance to it.
It felt like some weird career puberty, like how people you start to be,flirty with before you notice your own breasts. I was being treated in,a more adult way before I even understood why or how.
All adventurous women do.
I have the nagging sense that my true friends are waiting for me, beyond college, unusual women whose ambitions are as big as their past transgressions, whose hair is piled high, dramatic like topiaries at Versailles, and who never, ever say "too much information" when you mention a sex dream you had about your father.
I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand. . .
When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself. You are made up of compartments! You are one whole person! What gets said to you gets said to all of you, ditto, what gets done. Being treated like shit is not an amusing game or a transgressive intellectual experiment. It’s something you accept, condone, and learn to believe you deserve. This is so simple. But I tried so hard to make it complicated.
Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it’s too late.
Ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put,But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.
Enjoy going through life as yourself.
The most terrifying aspect of human health is our refusal to take steps to help ourselves and the fact that we are so often responsible for our own demise through lack of positive action.
If I had known how much I would miss these sensations I might have experienced them differently, recognized their shabby glamour, respected the ticking clock that defined this entire experience. I would have put aside my resentment, dropped my defenses. I might have a basic understanding of European history or economics. More abstractly, I might feel I had truly been somewhere, open and porous and hungry to learn. Because being a student was an enviable identity and one I can only reclaim by attending community college late in life for a bookmaking class or something.
I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.
I never thought of myself as like, a funny person.
My mom knows pretty well how I see her.
All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.
My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine. .
